USPTO Announces Peer-to-Patent Expansion

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USPTO Announces Expansion of Peer-to-Patent Peer-to-Patent Pilot Extended for Another Year The US Patent and Trademark Office has announced the extension of the Peer-to-Patent pilot for another year as well as its expansion to include pending patent applications for Business Methods (Class 705).  The expansion also increases the number of applications that may be posted on the Peer-to-Patent site from 250 to 400. Participants are now allowed to submit up to 25 patent applications for public review. There are currently 21 applications available for review at www.peertopatent.org.  The applications cover a wide spectrum of subject matter, such as the most recent application, "Booting utilizing electronic mail."  The claimed invention would allow a user to start/restart a computer system and load an operating system remotely by making a boot image available through email or instant messaging. The application will be available for review until October 23, 2008. The other 20 applications available for review are: Methods of de-identifying an object (from GE, available until July 17, 2008) System and method to support use of bus spare wires in connection modules (from IBM, available until July 24, 2008) Processing queries on hierarchical markup data using shared hierarchical markup trees (from IBM, available until August 7, 2008) Methods and systems for prompting users of computing devices (from Daryl Coutts, available until August 14, 2008) Enhanced server to client session inspection (from Cisco Systems, available until August 14, 2008) Non-volatile storage (from HP, available until August 14, 2008) System and method of expediting certain jobs in a computer processing system (from HP, available until August 14, 2008) Displaying group icons representing respective groups of nodes (from HP, available until August 14, 2008) Fast write operations to a mirrored volume in a volume manager (from Cisco Technology, available until August 21, 2008) Modified buddy system memory allocation (from HP, available until August 21, 2008) Managing snapshots in storage systems (from HP, available until August 21, 2008) Declarative association of dialog fields (from HP, available until August 21, 2008) Rendering and correcting data (from HP, available until August 21, 2008) Matching a slideshow to an audio track (From HP, available until August 21, 2008) Version control for application message models (From IBM, available until September 4, 2008) System and method for client initiated authentication in a session initiation protocol environment (From Cisco Systems, available until September 11, 2008) Methods and systems for creation of hanging protocols using graffiti-enabled devices (From GE, available until September 11, 2008) Disambiguation in dynamic binary translation (From Intel, available until September 25, 2008) Systems and methods for information presentation (From Daryl Coutts, available until September 25, 2008) Internet memory access (From Intel, available until October 23, 2008) To read summaries for all of these applications, please visit http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/applications.html

USPTO Press Release To read the USPTO press release announcing the extension and expansion of Peer-to-Pilot, click here.   Eligible Classes Patent applications in the following classes are eligible for participation in Peer-to-Patent: 380, 700, 703, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 717, 718, 719, and 726.   For more details, visit the official USPTO Peer-to-Patent page.   Peer-to-Patent in the Media Peer-to-Patent has recently appeared in notable publications, including Federal Computer Week, O'Reilly Radar, and The American.  To view all of the articles, visit the Peer-to-Patent blog at the DoTank. First Anniversary Report Peer-to-Patent recently released its First Anniversary Report detailing the numerous successes of the first 40 applications in the pilot.  To download the entire report, visit the DoTank.

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